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Zadie Smith je britská spisovatelka, která doposud napsala čtyři romány. V roce 2003 byla zapsána na seznam literárního časopisu Granta mezi dvacet nejlepších mladých autorů.

✵ 25. říjen 1975   •   Další jména ஸேடி ஸ்மித், زادی اسمیت, ज़ैडी स्मिथ
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“… the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”

Zadie Smith kniha White Teeth

Varianta: A past tense, future perfect kind of night.
Zdroj: White Teeth (2000)

“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 424.
Zdroj: On Beauty (2005)

“You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 167.
On Beauty (2005)
Varianta: You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.

“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”

Zadie Smith kniha White Teeth

Zdroj: White Teeth (2000)
Kontext: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

“… They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”

Zadie Smith kniha White Teeth

Varianta: Because this is the other thing about immigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
Zdroj: White Teeth (2000)

“Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”

Zadie Smith kniha Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Zdroj: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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